The ritual stance and the precaution system: the role of goal-demotion and opacity in ritual and everyday actions

Rituals tend to be both causally opaque and goal demoted, yet these two qualities are rarely dissociated in the literature. Here we manipulate both factors and demonstrate their unique influence on ritual cognition. In a 2 × 3 (action type x goal information) between subjects design 484 US adults vi...

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Authors: Kapitány, Rohan (Author) ; Nielsen, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2017
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-42
Further subjects:B action precaution system
B ritual cognition
B causal opacity
B Religion
B Ritual
B goal demotion
B Action perception
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